Gedit Snippets Plugin : How do you use the “tab trigger”?

Question

I enabled "snippets" in gedit. i added a new snippet.

Value: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Tab Trigger : a

Shortcut key : CTRL + 1

Drop targets : none

everytime i press CTRL + 1

it inserts

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

which is fine, but what is this

Tab Trigger about ?

How can i make use of it ?

is a suppose to get replaced with aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
automatically ?

Answer 1

Tab trigger setting is used for tab completion. When you'll press a and then TAB - you'll see aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa . Pretty useful, by the way.